Word: ustashi
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...kind of holding pattern for nearly 50 years. With the collapse of communism, all the terrible deeds committed during World War II (and World War I, for that matter) came streaming back, demanding vengeance. The Croats' alliance with Hitler, and the savage enthusiasm of the Croatian ultra- nationalist organization Ustashi in slaughtering Serbs from 1941 to 1945, created a vast accumulation of hatred and blood debts. A Serb will say, "Croats are a genocide people...
...full dark at the Manjaca camp. Here the Serbs hold more than 3,000 prisoners, mostly Bosnian Muslims, mostly fighters, we are told. We find one smirking, screwy kid who is a German. He joined the Croatian forces (he was wearing a black Ustashi T shirt) because he said he wanted an adventure that he could write a book about. The camp commander, Lieut. Colonel Bozidar Popovic, is a barking, strutting martinet who wields a Mini Maglite as if it were a swagger stick. His voice never drops from a shout. He bellows, "I am a humanist...
...hard labor-went to 55-year-old Arseny Bore-movich, who admitted that he was "slightly guilty": he had done a bit of spying for Moscow, and during the war had sentenced 24 Yugoslav partisans to death while serving as a judge in Yugoslavia's pro-fascist Ustashi courts. The Russian Orthodox priest, Alexei Kryshkov, got 11½ years, plus the "loss of civil rights" for four years. He had confessed to writing reports for the Soviet embassy in Belgrade which were afterwards used in Radio Moscow's anti-Tito broadcasts. The only woman defendant, Ksenia Komad...
...first severe blow fell with the arrest of twelve priests and six laymen, among them, Ivan Shalich, the Archbishop's secretary. The charge: collaboration with the Ustashi, terrorist organization of the Croat fascist Ante Pavelich. Then the prosecutor prepared Stepanic's indictment...
According to Tito, the German fighter is not what he used to be. He has morale only in the impetus of the first assault. If it fails, he loses heart. Nowadays, the Ustashi (Croatian quisling soldier) is worth two Germans in combat. He knows what to expect if defeated, and is intimately acquainted with the Yugoslav terrain...